The Bolivarian government has decided to suspend diplomatic missions in several countries in the region and demanded that they withdraw their representatives.
The government of Venezuela decided to withdraw all diplomatic personnel from about seven countries in the region, including Uruguayafter considering that these nations did not recognize the results of last Sunday’s elections, which re-elected the president Nicolas Maduro.
In an election day that was marked by accusations of fraud after the proclamation of Maduro as president-elect by the National Electoral Council (CNE), the Bolivarian government decided to withdraw its diplomatic delegations from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
The Maduro government also demanded that these governments “immediately withdraw their representatives” from Venezuelan territory, amid a climate of escalating diplomatic tensions with countries in the region.
Through the statement released by the social network X, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil he claimed: “Venezuela expresses its strongest rejection of the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subordinate to Washington and openly committed to the most sordid ideological postulates of international fascism, trying to reissue the failed and defeated Lima Groupwho seek to ignore the electoral results of the Presidential Elections held this Sunday, July 28, 2024, which gave victory as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Nicolás Maduro, for a new Constitutional Period 2025-2031.”
On the other hand, the statement maintains that the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela “reserves all legal and political actions to respect, preserve and defend” its “inalienable right to self-determination.”
“The Bolivarian government will confront all actions that threaten the climate of peace and coexistence that the Venezuelan people have made so many efforts to achieve, and we are therefore against all interventionist and harassing statements that repeatedly attempt to ignore the will of the Venezuelan people,” the letter concludes.
Source: Ambito
